Vending-machine.



S. WEIN & J. HLUDA.

VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 1. 1913. RENEWED OCT. 21, 1914.

1 1% 22Q; Patented May 18, 1915.

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SAMUEL WEIN AND JOHN HLUDA, OF PORT CHESTER, NEW'YORK.

VENDING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1915.

Application filed October 1, 1913, Serial No. 792,908. Renewed October 21, 1914. Serial No. 867,899.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, SAMUEL WEIN, a citizen of the United States, and JOHN HLUDA, a subject of the King of Hungary, residing at Port Chester, in the county of \Vestchester and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vending-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The general object of the invention is to facilitate the obtaining of such articles, as spools of thread, from the cabinets or receptacles in which these articles are usually displayed in stores. And to this end the invention resides in providing mechanism for retaining the articles in the cabinet and operable to eject the articles one at a time from the magazine within the cabinet and forming part of the same.

Other objects will appear and be better understood from that embodiment of our invention of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a vertical section of the lower end portion of a cabinet constructed in accordance with our invention and showing the operating mechanism and the interior construction of the cabinet partly in section and in side elevation, and with parts broken away to disclose other parts. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In the present instance, we have shown a cabinet provided with a single chamber or magazine adapted for holding such articles as spools of thread 5. Obviously, with such a structure if the facility of obtaining a spool of required number thread is to be considered, the gage or number of the thread on each spool must correspond to that of the other spool rather than vary. Hence in a cabinet adapted for holding the various sizes or numbers of thread, a magazine will be provided for each number and also an ejecting mechanism, such as that shown in the drawings and hereinafter to be described, will be provided for each magazine. The inlet opening to the magazine is located preferably in the top (not shown) of the cabinet at and the floor or bottom 6 of the said magazine inclines rearwardly and downwardly from the front wall 7 of the cabinet to a point adjacent to the rear wall 8 of the said cabinet, the space intervening between the end of the said bottom and the end wall 8 constituting an outlet opening 9 whose area is such as will permit of the passage therethrough of any of the spools 5. By having the outlet 9 in the bottom 6 in the relation shown, the contents of the magazine will always be directed toward the said outlet opening.

Disposed below the outlet opening 9 is a yielding support 10. This support 10 is preferably formed of resilient metal and is arranged below the rear end portion of the bottom 6 for a distance a trifle greater than the diameter of one of the spools 5. In length the support is adapted for accommodating a plurality of spools, preferably 2, and the outer end of the support is arranged above an inclined chute or runway 11 which leads to the outlet opening 12 in the bottom 13 of the casing a.

Arranged in the casing a and with its arms disposed on either side of the support 10 is a horizontally disposed yoke let. A crank shaft 15 is journaled in the arms of the yoke and is disposed midway of the support 10 and inner end portion of the floor or bottom 6 of the magazine. Being so positioned the said rock shaft forms an abutment for the outermost spool on the support 15 and thereby maintains such spool and the succeeding spools in the positions shown in the drawings.

16 is a presser foot rigidly secured to the crank shaft 15 and arranged so as to extend upwardly and rearwardly with respect to the support 10. This said presser foot 16 is curved and conforms to the circumferential contours of the spools 5 and is so proportioned in one dimension as to cover the up per segment of the surface of the lowermost spool when turned into contact with the said surface, as will be hereinafter described.

17 is a double ended crank on one end of the shaft 15 and 18 is a link which connects one arm of the said crank with one end of a push rod 19 mounted to slide in an opening in the front wall 7 of the casing and also adapted to slide in a guide 20 forming an extension of one of the arms of the yoke 14. J.

21 is a spring which connects the other arm of the crank 17 with a point in the side wall of the magazine. This spring being a re tractile spring operates to restore the crank shaft and the parts connected thereto, to

their-normal positions after the pressure which-operates the rod 19 to move inwardly, is removed from thesarid rod.

From the foregoing the operation of the device will be largely understood. Assuming that the parts are positioned as shown in Fig. 1, pressure being applied to the rod 19 will effect the turning of the crank shaft 15 and the bringing of the presser foot 16 into contact with the lowermost spool. Now as turning movement of the crank shaft is continued under continued pressure on the push rod the free end portion of the platform 10 yields downwardly until the upper segment of the spool clears the crank shaft 15. During downward movement of the platform 10 the presser foot by virtue of its construction, forces downwardly and forwardly on the lowermost spool and thereby operates to accelerate the projecting of the same onto the chute 11. During this action on the part of the presser foot, however, it will be observed that the said presser foot positions itself so as to form an abutment for the succeeding spool and thus operates to prevent the passage of the said succeeding spool onto the chute 11 when the lowermost spool moves to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. When the lowermost spool is ejected the support 10 moves upwardly by its own resiliency and the presser foot still holding the succeeding spool prevents the latter from moving forwardly until the release of the push rod, whereupon the spring 21, the tensioning of which was effected during the ejecting of the spool, now operates to restore the parts to their normal positions.

In the present instance we have shown the ejecting mechanism used in connection with a coin or check controlled apparatus, indicated generally by b. This apparatus includes a latch 22, a keeper 23, a coin pocket 24 and a coin chute 25. The latch 22 is pivotally connected to a hanger 26 herein shown as suitably fastened to a side of the magazine. The keeper 23 is rigidly secured to the crank shaft 15, the coin chute 25 extends downwardly from an offset portion of the front wall 7 of the casing a and the pocket 2% is attached to the outer end portion of the latch 22 and arranged in alinement with the coin chute 25. Now when a coin is deposited in the chute 25 and falls into the pocket 24 the weight added to that end of the latch on which the pocket is disposed, will cause the said end to move downwardly, whereupon the opposite end of the latch will, move upwardly and out of engagement with the keeper 23. Now the push rod 19 which was previously locked by the engagement of the latch and the keeper, may be pushed inwardly and the lowermost spool Copies of this patent may be obtained for ejected as previously described. During such inward movement on the part of the push rod, a laterally extending arm 27 thereon rides over one side of an angular shaped spring 28 which forms the bottom of the pocket 24 and thereby flexes this said spring downwardly away from the pocket and permits the coin 29 therein to fall through a slot in the front side of the pocket and into the coin receptacle 29. After the lowermost spool passes through the chute 11 and through the outlet opening 12 it falls into a tray 30 disposed below the said outlet openready access may be had thereto with the hand.

What is claimed as new is: V V

1. In a machine of the class described, a magazine provided with an outlet opening, a yielding support positioned below the outlet opening and adapted for receiving the material from the magazine, means for holding the material on the support, and means for depressing the support byv bearing on the material whereby'to move the material away from the holding means.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a magazine provided with an outlet opening, a yieldable support disposed below the outlet opening and arranged for receiving the material from the magazine, means for holding the material against movement in one direction on the support, and means including a turnable ing 12 and constructed and arranged so that V presser foot adapted for depressingthe sup-1 I port by movinginto contact with the material thereon, for the purpose described.

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination of a magazine provided with an outlet opening, a yieldable support disposed below the outlet opening and arranged for receiving the material from the magazine, means for holding the material against movement in one direction on the support, a presser foot arranged for turning into contact with the material on the support whereby to depress the support and move the material clear of the holding means, and means including a push rod for operating the presser foot. i

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

- SAMUEL WEIN- Witnesses:

CHAS. F. DALTON, SAMUEL B. ALDERMAN.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature 7 in presence of two witnesses.

' Witnesses PAUL DRIKER, JAN. STIBAN.

JOHN HLUDA. 

